{"id":870,"date":"2006-12-02T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T10:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/02\/extra-dimensions-in-the-automo\/"},"modified":"2006-12-02T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T10:12:06","slug":"extra-dimensions-in-the-automo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/02\/extra-dimensions-in-the-automo\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra Dimensions in the Automotive Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the options that came with my new car (I bought one that they had on the lot) was an &#8220;Eight-Way Power Driver&#8217;s Seat.&#8221; As a physicist, I thought this sounded pretty exciting, because, you know, we appear to live in a three-dimensional world, and to get eight directions of adjustability would need to involve an extra spatial dimension or two, and that would be big news. Cancel the LHC, and everybody rush to the nearest Ford plant!<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of experimentation with the car, I can report that we still have only three spatial dimensions. The eight adjustments are:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move the entire seat up<\/li>\n<li>Move the entire seat down<\/li>\n<li>Move the entire seat forward<\/li>\n<li>Move the entire seat backward<\/li>\n<li>Tilt the bottom of the seat forward<\/li>\n<li>Tilt the bottom of the seat backward<\/li>\n<li>Tilt the back of the seat forward<\/li>\n<li>Tilt the back of the seat backward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;But wait,&#8221; you say, &#8220;that&#8217;s really only four adjustments. After all, it wouldn&#8217;t make any sense to be able to move the whole seat up if you couldn&#8217;t also move it back down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, that&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t have a high-paying job marketing automotive options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the options that came with my new car (I bought one that they had on the lot) was an &#8220;Eight-Way Power Driver&#8217;s Seat.&#8221; As a physicist, I thought this sounded pretty exciting, because, you know, we appear to live in a three-dimensional world, and to get eight directions of adjustability would need to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/02\/extra-dimensions-in-the-automo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extra Dimensions in the Automotive Industry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}